- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 16:50:27 +1100
- To: Greg Wilkins <gregw@intalio.com>
- Cc: HTTP <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
> On 21 Nov 2014, at 4:49 pm, Greg Wilkins <gregw@intalio.com> wrote: > > > On 21 November 2014 15:50, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote: > The point is that these capabilities are new to this version of the protocol. > > My point is that they are not really new. HTTP/1.1 can be used to measure latency (302 will do it, or looking at TLS handshake round trips, connection:close also can give such info). HTTP/1.1 had persistent connections that can be used to associated between 12% to 100% of a clients requests depending on how many connections they use. > > Furthermore, I think that such lists are only useful if they are complete enumerations. The harm of calling them out explicitly is that it may give users/implementers the false impression that these are the only privacy concerns they need to worry about. Noted. -- Mark Nottingham https://www.mnot.net/
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